Sunflower

Before:

After:

Bees.

It's natural hand dying time!

Turmeric and Coffee

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Water 

Vinegar

1. First boil your natural ingredients in a pot with water for about an hour 
2. In a separate pot, place your fabric in a solution of water and vinegar (4 parts water, 1 part vinegar). Let boil for an hour
3. Once your natural ingredients have been 'cooking' for an hour, strain all the remnants out. In this case, coffee grounds and turmeric clumps. 

(Note: The vinegar is used so that the dye will adhere permanently to the fabric)

 Turmeric and Coffee

Fabric boiling in water and vinegar. 


4. Once you have strained your dye and fabric, combine both in a stainless steel bowl and mix around (use a wooden spoon, as it is very hot!) 
5. After mixing, let it soak overnight for best (vibrant) results!

Happy Dying!


Pictures to come of the Turmeric/Coffee combination (It turned out a beautiful brownish-yellow) 

HOWEVER: This is the result of the red onion peels and blueberries.

In love. 

I am thinking; bed sheets, pillow cases and pillows! 

I decided to make a laptop case out of some random material I had come across a few weeks ago in the basement of my parents house. The material was faux fur and white linen. The linen was a little plain for my liking,  so I thought, why not dye it- 

with Blueberries!

 Material cut to size, ready to be sewn! 

(Note: Faux fur = very hard to sew!)

Close up of the naturally hand dyed fabric. I attempted a circle dye job, which I have to say I am rather pleased with. 

Finished!

My laptop now has a new home. 

Blueberry Love

Instead of running in the rat race of Toronto and being a cubicle desk jockey, I opted for picking and grading Blueberries. 

I love it. 

Everyday I surrounded by nature; bugs, plants, and delicious blueberries.

Here are some photos I took of the grading machine, which, well, grades the blueberries before they are shipped out to our customers. 

Bluejay Blueberries